Do You Need to Format a Hard Drive Before Installing Windows 10?
Contents Actually You Do Not Have to Format Your Ssd in Order to Fresh-Install the Win 10 Os onto the Ssd. as a Matter of Fact You Do Not Have to Even...
Actually you do not have to format your SSD in order to fresh-install the Win 10 OS onto the SSD. As a matter of fact you do not have to even initialize nor partition the drive in order to install the OS. You can take your “virgin” SSD (or HDD) right out of the box and install the OS onto the drive.
What format does a hard drive need to be to install Windows 10?
By default, Windows computers will choose NTFS (New Technology File System) for you because that’s the native Microsoft filing system. But if you want the external hard drive to also work on a Mac, you should choose exFAT.
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Do I need to format my HDD to install Windows?
The short answer is no and here’s why. When you install Windows, all you need to do is select the drive and Windows will partition off the space it needs for system files as Windows itself. To be honest, partitioning and formatting a hard drive nowadays is required only if you want to partition off space for storage.
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